{"product_id":"integral-humanism","title":"Integral Humanism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Jacques Maritain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Monstrous energies,”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eJacques Maritain sharply observes, have ravaged the modern world in its descent from the Renaissance and the Reformation. Error and truth have become strangely entangled, each confusing or malforming the other into a state in which “truths lie and lies speak the truth.” A boldly ambitious attempt to purify “these unnatural and deadly products, and to save the truths that they distort,” \u003ci\u003eIntegral Humanism \u003c\/i\u003eis both diagnosis of and remedy for the relationship between religion and culture, outlining the concrete historical ideal suitable to a new Christian civilization. After surveying humanism’s many historical forms—medieval, classical, anthropocentric, atheistic—and the myriad merits and demerits of each, Maritain proposes the model for a “new Christendom,” whose principles come from the clear and creative genius of St. Thomas Aquinas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003ePublished first in English in 1936 as \u003ci\u003eTrue Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e, and in revised translation in 1968 as \u003ci\u003eIntegral Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e, Maritain’s act of “practical philosophy” ranks among the most influential works of twentieth-century Catholic social thought and is a dynamic expression of “true” or “integral” humanism as that which strives to uphold man, individually and communally, in relation to God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan is not ordained to the body politic, according to all that he is and has… But all that man is, and can, and has, must be referred to God… \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003eSt. Thomas Aquinas)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003ePope Benedict XVI)\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Maritain\u003c\/b\u003e (1882–1973) was perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century. A convert, along with his wife Raïssa, from agnosticism to Catholicism, Maritain wrote extensively on metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of history—all with the guiding inspiration of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953485\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100040946031,"sku":"978-1685953485","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1129.jpg?v=1781124934","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/integral-humanism","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}